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Midori rushed out of the elevators as soon as they opened. Stark white walls greeted her, nearly blinding her as she moved with quick steps towards the receptionist. She hadn’t spent much time in hospitals, but she saw that the dreary walls could do with a pop of color to set the families who waited in the dull beige chairs at ease. Everything was too bright, too stimulating.
“I’m looking for Guy Rumpel’s room,” she told the receptionist.
The woman, dressed in pink scrubs and a red cardigan, barely spared her a glance. “Are you family?”
Midori grit her teeth. It was the second time today that someone demanded to know her relationship status with Guy. She didn’t know what she meant to him. She didn’t know what he meant to her. She was only here to retrieve her child who was in big tr
